The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-12-14
IForSthe -AsheVille CITIZEN. Z
OUR huntsville CORRESPONDENCE
BOUNTIFUL CROPs-YANCEY
AWAKE TO RAIL ROAD EN-
TERPRIZE-SOLID MER-
CHANTS AND PLEAS.
ANT DEALERS.

If you will pardon the intrusion will
give you few items from Yancey, where
your valuable paper has many friends,
and should have many more in sub
scribers. The tiiiers of the soil have
been abundantly blessed in this county
in this the year of our Lord 1887. First
they had a splendid wheat crop; one
mach inc threshed over fifteen thousand
bushels of wheat and oats-three fourths
of the amount being wheat. This rn2ch-
inc belonged tc Messrs. c. w Edwards
and Wilson Hensley, and was handled
by the former. The OAt crop Was fins,
and of corn there is enough and 10 spare;
it is simply enUrmous-the best crop ever
raised in tie county. Tn5 lay crop is
abundant, Yanccy claims t., be the best
grass county n Western Carolina But
the trouble is the farne,,5 as no market
for all this surplus. on, fer rail road 10
bear it away to market. IN that point
our people are not asleep. On Monday
last the County Commissioners made an
order Lonvening the Magistrates on
Saturday the 18th TO consider the pro-
priety Of making a subscription by the
county to = rail road. Fifty thousand
dollars seems to bo the proper idea; and
it Will be adopted-With little opposition.
We want BuncUmke to understand that
it is not the only county in the west that
is interested in rail roads and we intend
to show you that We are willing to meet
you on half way ground. Yancey is rich
in mineral, aboundS in forests of tho
finest timber, soil that yields generous
ly to the tiller all the cereals, that grows
tobacco as good as any, the grasses as
well, if not better than, her sister cOun-
ties and the root crops to perfection
Why, oh, why can't we have a rail road
We are going to vote the fifty thousand
subscription, and that before the IIth
day of February next, to let Buncombe
see we are not asleep, but are wide awake
to our interests. The merchants of
Burnsville, land they are good onesl
want rail road, because they are tired
Of hauling their goods from Johnson City,
Tenn, to which point all their shipments
are made for, the reason that freights are
so much lower there than OH the w. n
c. Road to Asheville, they can afford to
pay the extra haul. This should not be-
Ashcville loses a large trade by reason
of it. The merchants of Burnsville are
solid men, standing in front of i;ay's
Hotel on your right is julie A. Abernathy,
the bachelor merchant of the place, as
solid as the rocks upo which his house
is built, will sell you goods as good as the
pest ana as cheap as the cheapest; next
is DR.. w. P. Whittington's drug store
where all enquiries will be answered by
Mr.. McCampbsll in the most polite and
gentlemanlY manner. Next comes I. F.
Roland & Bro, (half brotherS), Roland
is Sheriff and good Ole; Charley Ray
holds dominion here, and few who enter
go out with empty hands, he sells cheap.
Across the way is 6. D. Rays store
presided over by J. c. Peterson. Well.
Neal is trump, always meets his custom
els with a pleasant countenance; and III
he fails to trade. it is because he hasn't
the article they vant-his motto is bly
where you can buy cheapest and sell low
down. lie has host Of friends The
merchants here all go upon the pay down
system, hence their success. St. Nicholas
has arrived and will remain until Christ
mas. May old Nick not come. SEE